Amy Coney Barrett Could Be A Superb Supreme Court Justice. She’s Choosing Not To Be

Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett has become a sort of enigma among avid Supreme Court observers.

After filling the vacancy left by deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in late 2020, many conservatives were hopeful that the former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia would offer a much-needed dose of originalism to the high court’s majority of Republican appointees. With Barrett joining Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and (on his good days) Neil Gorsuch, the prospects for decisions abiding by the Constitution as written would be far more likely, or so the conventional thinking went.